1
as in consensuses
the state of being of one opinion about something
we were in agreement about one thing at least: that we'd never worked so hard in all our lives
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as in pacts
an arrangement about action to be taken
we finally reached an agreement regarding a fair division of the housework
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Recent Examples of agreements
Historically, federal and state agencies have worked to broker agreements with landowners whose properties border public lands to ensure public access, but those processes can take years.
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Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2025
Footage and images released by the Chilean Navy on the social-media platform X in recent days show Iquique's maritime authority inspecting foreign fishing vessels off the city to verify their compliance with legal regulations and international agreements.
—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
The startup, which is valued at $500 billion, has inked multibillion-dollar agreements with Advanced Micro Devices, Nvidia and CoreWeave in recent weeks.
—Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
Canada Post has urged CUPW to return to the bargaining table to reach new collective agreements.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 13 Oct. 2025
Sadat and Begin won the Nobel Peace Prize for reaching the framework agreements between Egypt and Israel, a first in the Arab world.
—Susan Page, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
Both agreements, however, build on an executive order Trump signed in May that set a deadline for drugmakers to electively lower prices or face new limits on what the government will pay.
—Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2025
For some agreements, the situation is simpler.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2025
Hidalgo-Monroy Wohlgemuth argues that, even with initiatives that offer farmers a livable income and pricing stability, such fair trade agreements aren’t a catch-all solution for rural livelihood development.
—JSTOR Daily, 11 Oct. 2025
Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 13 Oct. 2025
Footage and images released by the Chilean Navy on the social-media platform X in recent days show Iquique's maritime authority inspecting foreign fishing vessels off the city to verify their compliance with legal regulations and international agreements.
—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
The startup, which is valued at $500 billion, has inked multibillion-dollar agreements with Advanced Micro Devices, Nvidia and CoreWeave in recent weeks.
—Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
Canada Post has urged CUPW to return to the bargaining table to reach new collective agreements.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 13 Oct. 2025
Sadat and Begin won the Nobel Peace Prize for reaching the framework agreements between Egypt and Israel, a first in the Arab world.
—Susan Page, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
Both agreements, however, build on an executive order Trump signed in May that set a deadline for drugmakers to electively lower prices or face new limits on what the government will pay.
—Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2025
For some agreements, the situation is simpler.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2025
Hidalgo-Monroy Wohlgemuth argues that, even with initiatives that offer farmers a livable income and pricing stability, such fair trade agreements aren’t a catch-all solution for rural livelihood development.
—JSTOR Daily, 11 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for agreements
Noun
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In the show, which Lincoln Hiatt and Andrew Golder created, contestants are confined to isolation pods with no sense of day or night, no human contact and no alliances – somewhat against the grain of the current spate of guessing game formats that require contestants to form pacts.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
12 Oct. 2025
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Over the course of the 21st century, several mutual defense pacts that looked ironclad on paper have collapsed under fire.—
Omar Al-Ubaydli,
semafor.com,
8 Oct. 2025
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While the filmmaking itself is not atmospheric or distinctive enough to help, a core problem is that Stuckmann’s script (from a story conceived with wife Samantha Elizabeth) comes off as a checklist of horror conventions rather than something that’s building its own original mythology.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
13 Oct. 2025
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The gay rodeo movement pushed back at the conventions that pressured them to leave their communities and leaned into traditions from which they might otherwise be excluded.—
Sarah Henry,
Louisville Courier Journal,
13 Oct. 2025
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All spending was re-evaluated, vendor contracts renegotiated, staffing reduced and space consolidated to save maintenance costs.—
Jan Goldsmith,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Oct. 2025
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Founded in 1980, the company’s work with the federal government expanded significantly after 2018, completing more than $100 million in contracts since 2002, according to GovTribe.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Oct. 2025
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The primary goal is to trace how these medical ideas were communicated through language and how that language still influences public and clinical understandings of the body today.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Oct. 2025
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The memo, first reported by Axios, says that Congress must specifically appropriate funds for back pay, contradicting previous understandings of the law.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
7 Oct. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Agreements.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agreements. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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